Salvador Sanchez Ceren

Salvador Sanchez Ceren (18 June 1944-) was President of El Salvador from 1 June 2014, succeeding Mauricio Funes.

Biography
Salvador Sanchez Ceren was born on 18 June 1944 in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, the ninth out of twelve children in a Catholic family. Sanchez was a commander ("comandante") of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the Salvadoran Civil War, and in 2000 he became an FMLN deputy to the Legislative Assembly. After the death of Schafik Handal in 2006, Sanchez became the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of El Salvador and the FMLN, and in 2014 he was elected as President of El Salvador.